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Ep. 17: Eaton's All the Butter Tarts


Are you in the club? The butter tart club? The one that every Canadian (or at least Ontarian) is automatically born into?

Yes, today we're talking about our favourite and most controversial pastry. Raisins? Nuts? Plain? Runny/firm? What's the deal? Does the first known recorded butter tart recipe answer any of these questions?

Inspired by that very first recipe, we're also talking about another one-time Canadian/Ontarian behemoth: Eaton's! Specifically, Eaton's catalogues. Torey could read those things for days.

What we're obsessed with in history:
Torey: BBC's A Stitch in Time series (not available in Canada, but you can find full episodes on YouTube)
Steph: The Fabric Of Our Land: Salish Weaving - a workshop at the Museum of Anthropology led by Chief Janice George and Buddy Joseph. Steph attended in February and Torey is trying VERY hard not to get jealous.

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Check our facts:

FOOD

Butter Tarts, Canada’s Humble Favorite, Have Much to Love by Sara Bonisteel in the New York Times - The article that got this bandwagon going!
Mrs. Malcolm MacLeod and her recipe for butter tart filling from the Simcoe County Archives - the original recipe
Butter tarts in the Canadian Encyclopedia - with the LAC poster text!
Canadian Cookbooks Online - Where Steph found Sarah Lovell's Rough Puff Pastry recipe

FASHION

Eaton's Fall and Winter 1897-1898 catalogue at Library and Archives Canada 
End of Eaton's - a 1999 CBC interview dissecting the reasons behind the closure of Eaton's
Remembering the T. Eaton Company: Snapshots in History from the Toronto Public Library. Wonderful catalogue covers in here!

MUSIC

record scratch.wav, Luffy. This work is licensed under the Attribution License of Creative Commons.
Len, Steal My Sunshine, Recorded August 1998, released 1999 on the album You Can't Stop the Bum Rush. Produced by Mumble C.

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